Over the last several years, we have established ourselves as experts on marketing to the extreme vertical niches of the marine and angling enthusiast arenas. And because of this, Costa Del Mar came to us to help them launch their new Sunrise/Silver Mirror 580 lens. A low-light lens specifically designed to help anglers sight more fish in suboptimal conditions.
The University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School
Engineering the Ultimate Business Class Upgrade.
Helping the Miami Business school graduate to a higher level of success.
In the fall of 2017, the newly-minted administration at the University of Miami Business School undertook an ambitious mission: rebranding themselves as the Miami Business School. And they partnered with us to build every dimension of this brand.
A graduate degree in graduate degrees.
The top levels of the graduate-level business institutions are crowded and increasingly competitive field. So finding ways to leverage the unique advantages that a business degree from the Miami Business School could offer to a prospective candidate was our first task. Additionally, the Miami Business School has worked diligently to develop programs in the most relevant emerging fields, creating an entirely new graduate program in the area of Sustainability.
Generating leads for a new generation.
We created an integrated and multi-tiered marketing program to build the awareness of the brand, as well as implemented a wide array of digital tools to generate leads and aid in the successful recruitment of the most qualified candidates.
Bringing the future of higher education to the future.
We have helped the Miami Business School transition to a more digitally-centric marketing landscape, even crafting an entirely digital magazine for the school this year.
Dissatisfied with the offerings from the open-ocean, center-console boat manufacturers, serious angler and diver Alex Lipworth founded Invincible Boats in 2006. His goal was to create the boat he had always wanted and no one else built. As passionate boaters and anglers, we at Markham Yard were perfectly positioned to bring this attitude and spirit to life through a marketing campaign, sales materials, social media and merchandising. Together, we launched Invincible to greater lengths, providing comprehensive integrated support to the creation of a new line of performance offshore catamarans that have set a new standard for the entire marine industry.
Helping people see the sunshine state in a whole new light.
Helping Florida show the world the unexpected sides of this amazing place.
The state of Florida is comprised of a number of unique and distinctive regions, with a broad variety of activities and environments that people from all over the world enjoy. The state tourism organization, Visit Florida, tapped our team to help bring a number of these individual regions to life with distinctive branding and communications to show the world that there is not only always a reason to visit, there is always a reason to come back.
Venerated Atlanta dining institution Mellow Mushroom Pizza selected Coconut Grove, FL based Markham Yard for its branding and marketing duties to help support and grow one of the most successful restaurant concepts in America today. Founded in 1974 by three Georgia college students, the brand has subversively spread its counterculture brand to a family of stores over 100 strong spanning fifteen states. The core philosophy of the founders has helped maintain its unique culture and environment as it has organically grown, and now the company stands poised for a new level of success.
Helping a legendary brand uncork something extraordinary.
Crafting a sparkling debut for a venerated brand’s newest varietals.
Popular Italian vintner, Santa Margherita, tapped Markham Yard in early 2019 to help them launch several lines of sparkling varietals, Santa Margherita Prosecco and Santa Margherita Sparkling Rosé. Working with renowned fashion photographer, David Michael Adams, we embarked on an unorthodox and audacious journey to capture the luxurious floating euphoria of the product. A comprehensive integrated campaign connected social media, events, digital placements, OOH in Miami, New York and Los Angeles as well as merchandising on-premise. Due to the success and positive reception of this launch, Santa Margherita has since expanded the “Uncork Extraordinary” brand positioning we developed to encompass its entire portfolio.
We do our very best work for the things that we are passionate about.
One of the things we are most passionate about is shallow-water, light-tackle angling. So, when we got a call from Hell’s Bay Boatworks, we saw an opportunity to communicate a deeper emotional connection with their core audience—to show those shared values, the things we all agree on and believe in.
We are tremendously proud of the work we have done with the team at Hell’s Bay Boatworks. Over the last five years, our Hell’s Bay work has been awarded “Best Marketing Campaign” in the entire boating industry three times by the National Marine Manufacturers Association.
We worked with Oriental Bank, Puerto Rico’s second-largest financial institution, to create a disruptive new brand presence in the marketplace that matched their innovations in banking. We launched an integrated campaign across mass media, digital, events and guerrilla.
We created a new and disruptive brand position for Oriental Bank based on the fact that they are working to engineer a different, modern, customer-centric bank, using technology to make their brand experience seamlessly integrate with people’s daily lives. And at every point, our prime strategy has been to craft communications that don’t feel like traditional financial marketing.
Anytime. Anywhere.
Sometimes, the answer is right in front of you. In Spanish, the word “banco” means “bank,” but it also means “bench.” To demonstrate the virtual and online capabilities of Oriental Bank, we used the bench to signify that their bank was literally wherever you were, 24/7/365.
Growing in a shrinking market.
Since Hurricane Maria in 2016, Puerto Rico has seen a number of professional-class people emigrate to the mainland United States. Despite that, we have worked with Oriental Bank to successfully grow their business and market share in the years since.
Defending the magic of childhood by building a hospital that’s just for kids.
We worked with the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU’s philanthropic foundation to help create support for the construction of an entirely new facility, engineered specifically to address the needs of children. In this collaboration, we helped in every facet, from the naming of the new Wonder Tower, to specific donor outreach, events, activations, and mass media awareness.
We created a campaign to bring the joyful, optimistic perspective of childhood to life, demonstrating the very thing that this hospital is engineered to protect. We personalized the campaign, sending 280 individually hand-painted hard hats to key influencers to bring their role in this to life. We crafted a TV commercial with 40-foot teddy bears and five-ton Slinkys. We reached out to the community in dozens of unexpected ways, resulting in an eight-figure surge in support (So far.)
Helping Virgin’s rebellious brand navigate a new world.
As an international brand with a decidedly British playfulness, Virgin has a global mandate to “Change Business for Good.” They’ve delivered a breath of fresh airline with Virgin America, made everyone better off with Virgin Money and are proving that not even the sky’s the limit with Virgin Galactic. And now, with Virgin Voyages, they’re setting their sights on the seven seas—to make waves, rewrite the rules and change the experience of sea travel forever. Because they wanted to design a voyage, not another cruise. Virgin Voyages tapped us to work on projects leading up to the launch of their first ship. And, as a brand known for doing things unconventionally, the work we did for them could be no different.
Paulina Aquino is the Chief Financial Officer at Markham Yard. Born in Santiago, Chile. She has resided in Florida since 1979. Paulina is a team building and financial professional with more than 20 years of experience within the Advertising industry. As a mother and grandmother Paulina strongly believes in a work/life balance, increasing productivity, happiness, and reducing stress. Paulina is also a firm believer in the power of positive thinking; it has made it possible for her to reach new heights in her career and help others do the same. On a personal level, Paulina enjoys family time, shopping and is obsessed with shoes! She also enjoys dining out, good wine and of course, coffee.